Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters. All Indian leaders will be of low calibre and men of straw.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can…